Femicides in Libya Spark Calls for Tougher VAW Laws Islam Alatrash | Jennifer Holleis - December 1, 2025 Three killings of women in Libya have ignited a national debate over women's safety and accountability, prompting demands for stricter legislation to protect women. Femicides have stirred up a national debate over women's safety and . Learn More
Afghanistan – Video – The First Afghan Woman to Bring a Case of Incest to Trial
A Thousand Girls Like Me The First Woman in Afghanistan to Bring a Case of Incest to Trial In Afghanistan where systematic abuses of girls rarely come to light, and seeking justice can be deadly, one young woman says "Enough." Khatera was brutally raped by her father since the age of nine and today she raises two precious and precocious . Learn More
China Announces 13% Tax on Contraceptives To Boost Birth Rates, & Childcare To Be Exempt
China Announces 13% Tax on Contraceptives To Boost Birth Rates, & Childcare To Be Exempt Chinese people will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services will be exempt, as the world's second-largest economy tries to boost birth rates. An overhaul of the tax system announced late last year removes many . Learn More
Afghanistan – Girls Say Taliban Education Ban Deepens Isolation & Mental Strain
Afghanistan - Girls Say Taliban Education Ban Deepens Isolation & Mental Strain January 3, 2026 - Schoolgirls and university students barred from education by the Taliban say prolonged restrictions have pushed them into forced isolation and mounting psychological distress, as 2026 begins with no indication that the bans will be . Learn More
Venezuela’s People Must Be Heard, Insists UN Human Rights Chief
Venezuela’s People Must Be Heard, Insists UN Human Rights Chief By Daniel Johnson in Geneva January 6, 2026 - Responding to the seizure of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Tuesday reiterated deep concerns that the military operation undermined fundamental protections for sovereign . Learn More
How to Save the Fight for Women’s Rights
How to Save the Fight for Women’s Rights The Backlash Against Democracy Calls for New Strategies By SASKIA BRECHENMACHER* January 7, 2026 - Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s . Learn More
Iran – Women Flout Hijab & Dress Code Despite Laws & Arrests
Iran - Women Flout Hijab & Dress Code Despite Laws & Arrests Despite fresh attempts to make women cover up, many believe the regime wouldn’t risk mass arrests for fear of sparking a wave of popular unrest last seen after the killing of Mahsa Amini By Deepa Parent December 24, 2925 - On the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, young . Learn More
Ukraine – Women on the Front Lines of Conflict
Ukraine – Women on the Front Lines of Conflict Vera, 94, lives on the front line in Marinka, a town in eastern Ukraine separated by the front line in the suburbs of Donetsk. After being targeted by shells, she became very pious. Shortly after this photo was taken, Vera was found paralysed in her bed by a social worker of the NGO People In Need . Learn More
UN, US Sign $2 Billion Humanitarian Funding Agreement for 17 Crisis-Hit Countries
UN, US Sign $2 Billion Humanitarian Funding Agreement for 17 Crisis-Hit Countries 29 December 2025 - The United Nations and the United States on Monday formalized an agreement under which the US committed $2 billion in humanitarian assistance for global relief programmes, a move the UN’s top relief official hailed as a landmark commitment to . Learn More
Pathways to Lasting Peace & Justice – Statement of the Nobel Women’s Initiative
Statement: Pathways to Lasting Peace & Justice As Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, we raise our voices with urgency and hope—grounded in resistance, solidarity, and a shared commitment to justice at this critical moment. The world is in crisis. Armed conflicts are escalating. Authoritarian regimes are expanding . Learn More
South Korea – Twin Birth Rate Second-Highest Globally, Report Warns
South Korea - Twin Birth Rate Second-Highest Globally, Report Warns Story by Cho Seong-ho Amid a sharp increase in twin (multiple-fetus) pregnancies and births in South Korea, there have been calls for policy shifts to reduce the risks associated with twin births for mothers and fetuses. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs . Learn More
Finland Offers More Perks to Stop Its Declining Birth Rate. Women Shrug It Off
Finland Offers More Perks to Stop Its Declining Birth Rate. Women Shrug It Off Arshi Qureshi and Mirva Lempiainen January 2025 - Finland, once a model for reconciling the demands of work and family life, is grappling with a rapidly declining birth rate amid a growing desire by adults to remain child-free. Despite generous parental-leave . Learn More
Japan – Black Box Diaries Film – Woman Journalists Courageous Expose of High-Profile Rapist
Japan - BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Publicly Flog 3 Women & 4 Men on Global Human Rights Day
Afghanistan - Taliban Publicly Flog 3 Women & 4 Men on Global Human Rights Day December 10, 2025 - The Taliban Supreme Court has announced that four men and three women were publicly flogged in the Gospandi district of Sar-e Pol province and the Behsud district of Maidan Wardak on charges described as illicit relationships. The . Learn More
Somalia – The Hidden Pain of Somali Women – Video
THE HIDDEN PAIN OF SOMALI WOMEN - VIDEO The Women's Storytelling and Multimedia Project (WSMP) seeks to document the impact of discriminatory family laws and practices to the lives and lived realities of African Muslim women and girls, and how that connects to the larger women's movements seeking change in the We Cannot Wait (WCW) project focus . Learn More
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